Chapter 29 Prey

"…A defector?"

"You really don't know? You're really not someone's child?"

“Not really.”

"…Then I will explain it to you."

This Ershimin told Lin that they were an organization called "Breakaway Hunters".

The main purpose is to hunt creatures called "Secessionists", which are actually like the current dwarves.

They are a species that has completely deviated from their original life form, and strange changes will suddenly occur in them.

These creatures are the 'breakaways'.

In fact, this kind of creatures not only appear in Tucker's hope space, but also in other hope spaces.

This group of Ershi people organized such an organization, but they did not go to hunt down the defectors, but to find the flesh of the defectors.

That is...the boxes of things that Lin sees now.

Although there are various fruit logos on the box, it is actually all dwarf meat.

The Breakaways are all such creatures. They will struggle and crawl out of their original "bodies", which is quite similar to the feeling of "pupa", or like a large parasite crawling out of the host's body.

After the separation, the Ershi people didn’t know whether the person who separated was still the same creature as the original creature.

Perhaps only the defector himself can know this.

Like a dwarf, its inner skeleton shrinks and detaches, and then some skin is glued on so that it can run around.

At this time there will be a lot of meat left there, and the Ershimin organization is specifically responsible for collecting this leftover meat.

It doesn't say what the function of this meat is.

However, collecting meat is very dangerous, mainly because these breakaways are dangerous creatures themselves, like the dwarf's "boneless doll".

They are very aggressive and will attack the creatures around them, so collecting the remaining meat... also requires preparing a lot of weapons.

The meat must be fresh, so you can't wait too long to get it.

This time, their organization encountered a disaster, mainly because they did not expect these "boneless dolls" to be so difficult to deal with.

They almost wiped out the entire organization, and now they are everywhere here...attacking the remaining Ershi people.

And they don't know how they affected the automatic defense system, which made the defense system have no response to them.

Lin was very interested in the situation of these Ershi people, so she asked some related questions.

These Ershi people come from a certain space of hope.

In fact, they don’t know the specific situation of the Hope Space, but they know that there are many different spaces, and these spaces have different environments.

They have a way of jumping between different spaces, looking for the... flesh of those who have left.

This place that looks like an underground fortress is actually a means of transportation for jumping in space.

This is quite interesting, so Lin decided to see how it jumps.

Of course, it didn't tell Lin this information, because it began to doubt Lin's identity as it spoke, so the following information was detected directly from its brain.

After Lin finished the test, the Ershimin was so scared that he ran away from the room.

Lin also left the food warehouse and walked towards a special place in the fortress.

This place can be said to be the location of the 'jump starter'.

After walking through the passage and passing some rooms, you can see that the weapons and supplies of the Ershi people are scattered everywhere in these rooms.

However, there are very few boneless dolls to be seen, perhaps they have all left here.

But Lin still didn't know how they destroyed the fortress.

In fact, even the Ershimin I just met didn’t know either.

Its main task is to go out and explore the environment, and then come back to find out the situation here after the investigation.

Lin has now arrived at the location of the jumping device, or to be more precise, the control room of the device.

This control room was small…When Lin entered the room, she could see a table in the center of the room.

And on the table was a...starting device.

This starting device is a 20-centimeter dark green square object. Facing Lin is a screen, and there is a button on the right side of the screen... only one.

After Lin pressed the button, a large amount of text appeared on the screen.

Lin found that the picture was completely black and white.

Moreover, the characters it used were not...any of the Ershi characters that Lin knew.

Although their words are understandable, because Lin can sense their emotions and some thoughts.

But the text above is incomprehensible.

Lin didn't test Ershimin very deeply just now, so she didn't fully understand the content of the language.

So Lin randomly poked a few buttons on the side, and after the screen flashed a few times, Lin saw the entire fortress's... surveillance screen.

Here you can see the maps of the passages and rooms in the entire fortress, and these maps have many moving points.

These should be the boneless dolls that move around in here. There are only a few dozen of them.

Lin felt that if they wanted to capture the fortress...it would no longer be a problem based on numbers, judging from the combat effectiveness they had demonstrated before.

Maybe they have some special way to capture this place.

At this time, Lin poked the button on the side of the screen again.

Suddenly, Lin found that all the dots on the map turned red, and at the same time Lin heard gunshots in the passage.

It seemed that at that moment, Lin set all the boneless dolls in the fortress to 'hostile'.

Then the automatic fire system began to clean them up.

The amazing thing is, this thing only has one button, but pressing it can produce such an effect... This is really amazing.

Then, Lin pressed it again.

"Buzz——"

At this time, Lin felt the ground shaking, which lasted for more than ten seconds and then stopped.

This should be...

Thinking of this, Lin left the control room and walked quickly towards the exit.

As she walked, Lin could see many boneless dolls that had been killed by weapons.

When Lin walked to the exit, she found that... the environment outside had indeed changed.

It seemed that after Lin pressed the button for the last time, the 'jump' was initiated.

The environment outside looks... not bad.

It is mainly a vast plain composed of half-meter-high grass, an endless blue sky, and... a group of Ershi people.

These Ershi people were wearing gold and silver reflective clothing and looked at Lin with strange expressions.

At this time, an Ershimin asked, "You...are back? Did you find enough meat?"

"No, it's not a team member." Another Ershimin said: "Maybe something happened..."